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we begin with peter alexander. peter, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. days ago this was a quiet creek but as you see now, it's a rushing river. after several states collected historic rain totals in this massive storm. tonight there is a hole in the heart of baltimore, heavy rain causing the road to collapse, swallowing cars, and sweeping debris over this crucial east coast rail line. >> oh my god. >> reporter: tim rogers watched in disbelief as crews crushed his car and others to get them off the tracks. in maryland fed frederick lost 28 cars when flood waters went into his dealership and body shop. >> you see the dollars flying away. >> reporter: in this case floating away. >> exactly. >> reporter: that water came from this dam officials decided to open overnight to avoid a possible breach. from the plains to the northeast, violent wet weather, 159 reported tornados in 15 states. in new york city wednesday, the tenth rainiest day on record, close to five inches. still, that's nowhere near the eye-popping totals across the southeast. 11 inches in mobil
we begin with peter alexander. peter, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. days ago this was a quiet creek but as you see now, it's a rushing river. after several states collected historic rain totals in this massive storm. tonight there is a hole in the heart of baltimore, heavy rain causing the road to collapse, swallowing cars, and sweeping debris over this crucial east coast rail line. >> oh my god. >> reporter: tim rogers watched in disbelief as crews crushed...
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peter alexander, nbc news, washington. >>> there is word of yet another recall today by gm. this time it's more than 218,000 small cars. most of them chevy aveos from the model years 2004 to 2008. gm says a faulty part of the daytime running lights could overheat and cause a fire. since mid-february, gm has recalled on average almost 1 million cars a week. >>> still ahead tonight, hidden fees, extra charges, cancellations. new rules announced to tackle some of the biggest complaints for air travelers. >>> and later, a song that has so many people getting happy. yet a group of young men and women are arrested for dancing to pharrell, leading to backlash around the world. >>> we're back now with news for millions of travelers who bought an airline ticket online, only to be hit later with all the additional fees that can add big money to the price of a trip. the government today proposed requiring airlines and travel sites to be much more up front about the fees they charge. it comes as the airlines are lobbying congress for approval to advertise airfares without mentioning tho
peter alexander, nbc news, washington. >>> there is word of yet another recall today by gm. this time it's more than 218,000 small cars. most of them chevy aveos from the model years 2004 to 2008. gm says a faulty part of the daytime running lights could overheat and cause a fire. since mid-february, gm has recalled on average almost 1 million cars a week. >>> still ahead tonight, hidden fees, extra charges, cancellations. new rules announced to tackle some of the biggest...
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our report from national correspondent peter alexander. >> you are the new ms. teen usa. >> reporter: just as cassidy was enjoying this coronation, her moments at home were being violated. >> i received an anonymous e-mail from an anonymous person, he was basically extorting me and blackmailing me. he attached nude photos he had taken of me in my bedroom. >> reporter: that blackmailer had hacked into her room and used her webcam to photograph her. wolf is more than 700,000 cyber hacking victims worldwide whose personal computer were turned against them. today, federal authorities announced more than 90 arrests in 19 countries, from the u.s. to europe, a two-year investigation, one of the largest cybercrime crackdowns ever, among them, a swedish hacker living in muldova, who federal investigators say helped market the tool, called black shade remote access tool or black shades rat. >> black shades rat enabled anyone, anywhere in the world to instantly become a dangerous cyber criminal. >> reporter: they can be used to hijack computers and turn on webcams, access
our report from national correspondent peter alexander. >> you are the new ms. teen usa. >> reporter: just as cassidy was enjoying this coronation, her moments at home were being violated. >> i received an anonymous e-mail from an anonymous person, he was basically extorting me and blackmailing me. he attached nude photos he had taken of me in my bedroom. >> reporter: that blackmailer had hacked into her room and used her webcam to photograph her. wolf is more than...
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we get more tonight from nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: if the projections are right, newborn nia will witness big environmental changes during her lifetime. just think of all the extreme weather headlines in the last nine months. floods, tornadoes, record cold, and record drought. today's new white house report, the national climate assessment it's called, warns if we do nothing temperatures could rise up to ten degrees this century. president obama with nbc's al roker this afternoon. >> this is not some distant problem of the future. this is a problem that is affecting americans right now. >> reporter: across all regions. in the northeast heavier rainfalls and more heat waves are predicted. short winters are already affecting maple syrup producers. >> it didn't quite get cold enough at night. >> reporter: in the northwest, less snow and warmer more acidic ocean waterers cutting into oyster farmer bill taylor's catch. in the midwest, benefits of longer growing seasons may be wiped out by more extreme weather. more droughts and floods that could affect harvests and food prices. th
we get more tonight from nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: if the projections are right, newborn nia will witness big environmental changes during her lifetime. just think of all the extreme weather headlines in the last nine months. floods, tornadoes, record cold, and record drought. today's new white house report, the national climate assessment it's called, warns if we do nothing temperatures could rise up to ten degrees this century. president obama with nbc's al roker this...
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. >>> good day to you, i'm peter alexander in washington in today for andrea mitchell. it's what u.s. officials believe is authentic, the first proof of life we have seen of those missing nigerian school girls kidnapped by boko haram almost a month ago. with that video comes new demands, asking for the release of imprisoned militants in exchange for the captive school girls. stephanie gosk joins me now live from cameroon where some of the girls may have been moved by their kidnappers. stephanie, thanks for joining us. first thing out of the gates, i want a sense of significance of this video. it seems to support the idea that some of these girls may have been separated, unclear exactly what happened but only about 100 or so young girls in that video. >> reporter: well, you know, peter, this is a hostage video we're looking at here. we've never seen one quite like this because it shows scores of teenage girls. as you say, there are about 100 there. that's by our count. we know 276 school girls were abducted from the school four weeks ago. it would be less than half of th
. >>> good day to you, i'm peter alexander in washington in today for andrea mitchell. it's what u.s. officials believe is authentic, the first proof of life we have seen of those missing nigerian school girls kidnapped by boko haram almost a month ago. with that video comes new demands, asking for the release of imprisoned militants in exchange for the captive school girls. stephanie gosk joins me now live from cameroon where some of the girls may have been moved by their kidnappers....
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nbc's peter alexander. >> we're hearing from senior officials in the last few minutes. let's run down exactly what the numbers are. we expect to hear from the president today. the combat mission will end at the end of this year. there will be main about 9800 u.s. forces in afghanistan. at the end of the next year, 2015, it will be roughly half of that number. by the end of 2006, roughly the end of the president's presidency, it will be down to roughly embassy personnel and those to staff a security office. they said in the last five minutes or so to use their language that this is a moment of momentum in afghanistan where they say the afghan security forces have been stepping forward as have the afghan people, specifically referring to the successful election there a week ago, and a runoff that will take place in on june 14th. all of this requires that the bsa, the bilateral security agreement is signs, and the two candidates in that run off are believed likely to sign it. the president communities this decision to hamid karzai this morning by phone. >>> now to californ
nbc's peter alexander. >> we're hearing from senior officials in the last few minutes. let's run down exactly what the numbers are. we expect to hear from the president today. the combat mission will end at the end of this year. there will be main about 9800 u.s. forces in afghanistan. at the end of the next year, 2015, it will be roughly half of that number. by the end of 2006, roughly the end of the president's presidency, it will be down to roughly embassy personnel and those to staff...
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alexander, and now let's bring in kristin welker, and honorary jack jacobs, and kristen, any signal s from the white house about what we are expecting from the meeting? >> well, chris, i think that when president obama takes the podium he is going to express that and express his anger and frustration with the crisis at the v.a. and he has come under an immense amount of criticism for not speaking out about the issue in over e three weeks now, and that is going to be something that we will hear from him, and as you point out, he is currently meeting right now with the secretary of the v.a. eric shinseki as well as the deputy chief of staff rob nay bors who has been assigned to help sh shinseki and what went wrong and how to avoid it going forward and the white house has consistently said that they have confidence in secretary shinseki, and we will be listening closely to see if he reiterates that, and the calls for shinseki to resign have been growing louder, and the white house says they want twit for t -- they want to wait for the investigation that is ongoing. and background infor
alexander, and now let's bring in kristin welker, and honorary jack jacobs, and kristen, any signal s from the white house about what we are expecting from the meeting? >> well, chris, i think that when president obama takes the podium he is going to express that and express his anger and frustration with the crisis at the v.a. and he has come under an immense amount of criticism for not speaking out about the issue in over e three weeks now, and that is going to be something that we will...
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this is just in from our peter alexander in washington, d.c., this afternoon president obama will make an announcement about the next steps in winding down the war in afghanistan. the president will announce that our mission will be over by the end of 2014, and the president will make clear that we are open to continued efforts in afghanistan on two narrow missions after 2014. given that the bilateral security agreement is reached. both of the afghan presidential candidates recently reiterated their intentions to sign the agreement despite opposition by hamid karzai and the president as you know made a surprise visit to afghanistan yesterday and had a brief 20-minute phone conversation with karzai. he will announce the numbers and the u.s. role in a combat mission ending in 2014, and also developing surrounding the v.a. scandal, lawmakers are now calling for the justice department to open up a full criminal investigation. right now the v.a.'s inspector general is investigating alleged wait time cover-ups at centers across the kun tcountry. he is working with one branch of the justice d
this is just in from our peter alexander in washington, d.c., this afternoon president obama will make an announcement about the next steps in winding down the war in afghanistan. the president will announce that our mission will be over by the end of 2014, and the president will make clear that we are open to continued efforts in afghanistan on two narrow missions after 2014. given that the bilateral security agreement is reached. both of the afghan presidential candidates recently reiterated...
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. ♪ mattress discounters >>> we're back with developing news, peter alexander is reporting that u.s. officials will travel to nigeria in the next several days as boko haram claims responsibility for the kidnapping of more than 300 nigerian school girls that outraged so many of us around the world. terror group's leader says i abducted your girls and i will sell them in the market by allah. some have reportedly already been sold into marriage as little as $12. these are their names scrolling on the screen right here. 276 are still in captivity. their fate hanging in the balance. each of these girls is a daughter whose parents are desperate for their safe return home. >> they are not doing up to now. they are promising us that these girls will be found but up to this moment i'm talking, nothing has been done. >> not with me at the moment, my parents have left, we are crying at home. >> over the weekend a call to action across the washington to new york to london, protesters demanding the government do more to find these missing girls. nigeria's president appealed for international help
. ♪ mattress discounters >>> we're back with developing news, peter alexander is reporting that u.s. officials will travel to nigeria in the next several days as boko haram claims responsibility for the kidnapping of more than 300 nigerian school girls that outraged so many of us around the world. terror group's leader says i abducted your girls and i will sell them in the market by allah. some have reportedly already been sold into marriage as little as $12. these are their names...
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and peter alexander is live at the white house. what are we hearing from the administration? >> well, the administration says that the president has been briefed several times and the national security team is updating him on the latest of what is taking place of the missing young girls in nigerian. and before i came out to talk to you, i hung up from the phone of one of the senior officials who said that one of the top senior officials will travel to the region to help in the search for the young women, and the u.s. is presently going to be providing help in terms of the intelligence to try to get new information to try to find their whereabouts, but that is effectively where effectively where the aid ends and nigerian officials made it clear that's all the help they want at this time. we can hear another protest taking place where they are yelling shame on obama. that was a separate topic at hand. specifically what's important to notoriety now is that the u.s. is providing, they insist, all of the help that the nigerian officials requested and they will continue to have mor
and peter alexander is live at the white house. what are we hearing from the administration? >> well, the administration says that the president has been briefed several times and the national security team is updating him on the latest of what is taking place of the missing young girls in nigerian. and before i came out to talk to you, i hung up from the phone of one of the senior officials who said that one of the top senior officials will travel to the region to help in the search for...
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. >>> good day to you, i'm peter alexander in washington in today for andrea mitchell. it's what u.s. officials believe is authentic, the first proof of life we have seen of those missing nigerian school girls kidnapped by boko haram almost a month ago. with that video comes new demands, asking for the release of imprisoned militants in exchange for the captive school girls. stephanie gosk joins me now live from cameroon where some of the girls may have been moved by their
. >>> good day to you, i'm peter alexander in washington in today for andrea mitchell. it's what u.s. officials believe is authentic, the first proof of life we have seen of those missing nigerian school girls kidnapped by boko haram almost a month ago. with that video comes new demands, asking for the release of imprisoned militants in exchange for the captive school girls. stephanie gosk joins me now live from cameroon where some of the girls may have been moved by their
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. >>> good afternoon to you, i'm peter alexander in washington in for andrea mitchell. for first time the u.s. department of justice has filed criminal charges for cyber economic he is pea onage against another country. this was attorney general eric holder in a press conference a short time ago. >> we are announcing an indictment against the chinese people's liberation army for serious cyber security breaches against six american victim companies. the five chinese military officers conspired together and with others to hack into the computers in the western pennsylvania and elsewhere in the united states. we have brought a charging indictment and it is our hope to get them to stand before an american jury and face justice. >> joining me now, pete williams. the five individuals charged, members of china's united 61398, that's the group tasked with these types of attacks. what are the specific individuals accused of doing? >> they are members of the chinese army and people's liberation army. what they are accused of doing is in the case of all of these companies, getting
. >>> good afternoon to you, i'm peter alexander in washington in for andrea mitchell. for first time the u.s. department of justice has filed criminal charges for cyber economic he is pea onage against another country. this was attorney general eric holder in a press conference a short time ago. >> we are announcing an indictment against the chinese people's liberation army for serious cyber security breaches against six american victim companies. the five chinese military...
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peter alexander is joining us live from the white house. peter, good morning to you sh, has the white house mentioned anything about the disclosure that we mentioned? >> yes, it is a good question. both the white house and the cia are not commenting here, and to give you a better understanding of how this went on. it is a list of the 15, 16 senior officials that the president was meeting with and briefed by in the visit, the four-hour visit to afghanistan the there, and sent out to the reporters sent out to the president, and distributed through what they call the pool reports sent out to 6,000 recipients total. this was a name that was not intended to be on there, and it appears that the white house followed up, and that name was then missing from the list. it is obviously concerning given that this is according to the washington post the highest ranking spy in afghanistan. you will remember in pakistan, there was a time when the last three station chiefs have been exposed. one of whom had to get rushed out of the country, because he was t
peter alexander is joining us live from the white house. peter, good morning to you sh, has the white house mentioned anything about the disclosure that we mentioned? >> yes, it is a good question. both the white house and the cia are not commenting here, and to give you a better understanding of how this went on. it is a list of the 15, 16 senior officials that the president was meeting with and briefed by in the visit, the four-hour visit to afghanistan the there, and sent out to the...
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nbc's national correspondent peter alexander has more on that. peter, good morning to you. >> matt, good morning to you. monica lewinsky was 22 when her affair started with president bill clinton. she is 40 now. after years of virtual silence and she insists the clintons never paid her off, lewinsky is now speaking out about the humiliation and also expressing her regrets. monica lewinsky and bill clinton, it nearly cost him his presidency. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman, ms. lewinsky. >> monica, any comment at all? >> the former white house intern was at the center of a sex scandal that consumed the country 16 years ago, leading to clinton's impeachment trial even as the 42nd president avoided removal from office. now after more than a decade out of the limelight, lewinsky is breaking her silence with a column in the june issue of "vanity fair," writing, "it's time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress." and emphatically apologizing for her role in the scandal. "i myself deeply regret what happened." lewinsky insists her
nbc's national correspondent peter alexander has more on that. peter, good morning to you. >> matt, good morning to you. monica lewinsky was 22 when her affair started with president bill clinton. she is 40 now. after years of virtual silence and she insists the clintons never paid her off, lewinsky is now speaking out about the humiliation and also expressing her regrets. monica lewinsky and bill clinton, it nearly cost him his presidency. >> i did not have sexual relations with...
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for special affairs peter hollis. and peter, let me start with you, in getting the european i union to agree to stronger sanctions in rush sharks and is that what president obama is going to be pushing for the meetings with angela merkel today? >> well, she got here a while ago and i saw the motorcade arriving here, and they will have a private conversation prior to the news conference, but that is why angela merkel is so important, because she has been speaking to vladimir putin more than any other world leader, and president obama has not spoken to putin since the 14th of april, and merkel has spoken to him multiple timesk and germany is pivotal, because they are reluctant to go further with the further ek sectorial sanctions, because of the impact on the german economy. the trade between germany and russia was $1 billion and u.s. and germany was only $38 million. and germany gets roughly one-third of the oil and gas from russia, so a real concern within the german industry that they are the ones putting the pressur
for special affairs peter hollis. and peter, let me start with you, in getting the european i union to agree to stronger sanctions in rush sharks and is that what president obama is going to be pushing for the meetings with angela merkel today? >> well, she got here a while ago and i saw the motorcade arriving here, and they will have a private conversation prior to the news conference, but that is why angela merkel is so important, because she has been speaking to vladimir putin more...
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peter alexander. >> do i dare disturb the clinton universe? that's the question that monica lewinsky said she grappled with years for sharing her story with "vanity fair." beyond this expectation, shame hung around my neck. every day i'm recognized. every day. lewinsky in the full essay obtained by nbc news is insists he's speaking out for herself, not anybody else. this is not about me versus the clintons. their lives have moved on. i wish them no ill. and i fully understand what has happened to me and the issue of my future do not matter to either of them. having turned 40 last year, lewinsky realized it was time to stop tiptoeing around her past and the future. lynne cheney, wife of former vice president dick cheney told fox news she believes the clintons had a hand in the articles released. >> i really wonder if this isn't an effort on the clintons' part to get that story out of the way. >> reporter: true or not, ruth marcus said lewinsky has dunhillry a big favor. >> now if there's a hillary clinton campaign in 2016, we can move on from t
peter alexander. >> do i dare disturb the clinton universe? that's the question that monica lewinsky said she grappled with years for sharing her story with "vanity fair." beyond this expectation, shame hung around my neck. every day i'm recognized. every day. lewinsky in the full essay obtained by nbc news is insists he's speaking out for herself, not anybody else. this is not about me versus the clintons. their lives have moved on. i wish them no ill. and i fully understand...
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nbc's national correspondent peter alexander was there, as were we, and he's got the latest on it. peter, good morning. >> reporter: hey, guys. fun to see you here saturday night. president obama's gotten pretty good at his correspondent dinner delivery, but this year's event had plenty of fun stirring up a little light conversation about who might be next in line. by now, president obama has this nerd prom deal down. >> in 2008, my slogan was "yes, we can." in 2013, my slogan was "control alt delete." >> reporter: sprinkling in some self-deprecating humor with plenty of jabs. >> the house republicans actually give john boehner a harder time than they give me. which means orange really is the new black. >> reporter: but did this year's dinner offer any real clues about who might be the next comedian in chief? joe biden teams up with hbo's veep julia louis dreyfus, seemingly taking 2016 out for a spin. rating the white house kitchen. >> what's in your mouth? >> carrots. >> reporter: and running into nancy pelosi before getting matchi ining tattoos. onstage, president obama plafly dr
nbc's national correspondent peter alexander was there, as were we, and he's got the latest on it. peter, good morning. >> reporter: hey, guys. fun to see you here saturday night. president obama's gotten pretty good at his correspondent dinner delivery, but this year's event had plenty of fun stirring up a little light conversation about who might be next in line. by now, president obama has this nerd prom deal down. >> in 2008, my slogan was "yes, we can." in 2013, my...